Hepatitis B is one of a few known non-retroviralviruses which employ reverse transcriptionas a part of its replication process. (HIV, a completely unrelated virus, also uses reverse transcription, but it is a retrovirus.) HBV invades the cell by binding to surface receptor and become internalized. The viral core particles then migrate to the hepatocyte nucleus and the partially double-stranded, relaxed circular genomes (RC-DNA) are repaired to form a covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA), which is the template for viral genomic and sub-genomic RNAs by cellular RNA polymerase II. Of these, the pregenomic RNA (pgRNA is selectively packaged into progeny capsids and is then reverse-transcribed into new RC-DNA. The core can either bud into the endoplasmic reticulum to be enveloped or exported from the cell or recycled back into the genome for conversion to cccDNA.
Rabbit.
Affinity-purified Goat antibodies against the Native Ad/AyHBsAg antigens.1mg/ml in PBS, was passed through a 0.2um Filter into a 50ml sterile conic Tube.
Sterile Filtered solution.
(1ml) PBS.
One year frozen. One month in solution at 4°C.
Immunoreactive with all HBsAg A antigens. Direct ELISA shows signal above cut-off at antibody levels of 100ng/test and above.
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